Midwest League 1979

All-Star Game

South 9, North 2

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday, June 20, 1979

The 1979 Midwest League All-Star Game was played at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids on June 20, 1979. Two teams of the league's best players, as selected by the circuit's managers, faced off for league supremacy.

The Southern Stars scored eight in the first; that's pretty much the game story. Mitch Webster got two hits in the first and stole a base to lead the uprising. Larry Wright of Clinton was the winning pitcher; Waterloo's Troy Wilder earned the defeat.

Notes, Issues, Sources, and Mysteries

Based on the box score in the 1995 Midwest League Yearbook, with help from game accounts in the June 21, 1978, edition of the Waterloo Courier, which had a box score, and the Burlington Hawk-Eye, which didn't. The team selections were published in the June 10 edition of the Hawk-Eye.

The Midwest League plays Single-A, professional baseball in America's agricultural and industrial heartland. 16 teams play a 140 game schedule which begins in early April and ends Labor Day weekend.

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